The 100 season 7 air date, cast, plot and everything you need to know

It’s official, season six of The 100 is happening. On April 30, 2019, we’ll return to the grubby post-nuclear apocalyptic world populated by former Ark residents. Handily, they’re mostly attractive people in their 20s, which makes sense, as it is broadcast on The CW.

In fact, it was through CW boss Mark Pedowitz that we first found out that executive producer Jason Rothenberg had ideas for season six and a season seven, way back in January of last year.

"I know [Jason] has a plan beyond year five," he told Nerdist, though admitted "it's too soon to have that discussion".

Pedowitz added: "He may have a six or seven-year plan to it. I don't know if I'm allowed to even say that, that he has a plan beyond year five, but he does."

Rothenberg has said in the past that his plans run until season five, though has since admitted that it could go beyond that.

"When I said that a couple of years ago, I had this idea for how I wanted the show to end," he said last year. "But it was scalable and that ending could have been at the end of season three, it could be at the end of season five, it could be at the end of season eight.

"Those decisions are not really mine. I don't think that this is a show that runs for 10 seasons. But I love these characters and this world so much that it's fresh for me every year.

"We tell a different story every year so we don't get bored with it. I still have an end story in mind, but I don't know when that end is going to be and I feel very, very confident that I'll get to tell it eventually."

The sixth season was officially confirmed in May of last year, and we’ll be watching it in a matter of weeks. So what does it mean for season seven? We've grabbed a backpack of supplies to head into the woods of speculation.

For now, what follows is mostly guess-work (season six hasn’t even aired yet!), but you can rest assured that we’ll be keeping a close eye out for all the latest news, scoops and rumours, so we can stick every single fact into this feature as soon as it comes in. Keep us bookmarked, is what we're saying.

The 100 season 7 cast: Who will be in it?

As long as season six doesn’t go completely bonkers and kill off its lead, Eliza Taylor will return in The 100 season seven as lead Clarke Griffin.

Other cast members will presumably include Marie Avgeropoulos as Octavia Blake, Bob Morley as Bellamy Blake, Christopher Larkin as Monty Green, Lindsey Morgan as Raven Reyes and Henry Ian Cusick as Marcus Kane.

Shannon Kook being was cast as a guest star in the season five finale, as long as she makes it through season six, we’d expect her to return.

The 100 season 7 plot: What’s it about?

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With season six rumoured to be focusing on a new colony of humans on Eligius III, we’d expect season seven to be set entirely on earth, allowing Rothenberg to bring the series to a proper conclusion via the medium of as massive battle.

But, at this stage, your guess is as good as ours – The 100 might be based on Kass Morgan's series of post-apocalyptic Young Adult novels, but it’s added so much to the mythology by this point it might as well be an original series. Still, as long as it doesn’t do anything as dumb as killing off Lexa, we’ll probably be happy.

The 100 season 7 trailer: When will we see it?

We’d say March 2020 is your best bet, though that really is a massive guess, as we’re already into February and we haven’t had an official look at season six.

Until it arrives, check out the sweet fan-made trailer for the next season above. We’ll replace it with the season seven trailer when it lands next year.

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